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A Locacaca (ロカカカ, Rokakaka) é uma espécie de planta em JoJolion.
Sumário
Árvores de Locacaca são pequenas e com troncos tubulares e com entalhes, pequenas o suficiente para serem escondidas em uma maleta. No tpo de uma árvore de Locacaca é uma coroa de folhas. Galhos pequenos, espinhosos e sem folhas crescem do tronco, e viram perpendicularmente enquanto gerando frutas. As próprias frutas Locacaca são ovóides e cobertas com pequenas pontas de pele, e as folhas grudadas a fruta lembram folhas de árvores de figo.[1] O interior da fruta é compartimentado, como o de uma fruta cítrica. A fruta tem gosto de figo amargo.[2]
Ela é mencionada pela primeira vez quando Tsurugi explica a seu avô e Josuke porque ele confiava em Yotsuyu Yagiyama: ele havia observado o homem alimentando uma fruta a um cachorro aflingido com a doença de pedra, e ele parecia ter sido curado como resultado. Embora os dois tiveram suas dúvidas, Josuke vê o que aparenta ser uma fruta desaparecendo no oceano durante sua batalha contra Yagiyama. Entretanto, o homem morre e se despedaça antes que Josuke possa forçá-lo a revelar informações sobre a fruta.
Usando o King Nothing para automaticamente rastrear a planta, Josuke descobre o arma da fruta vindo do pai de Tsurugi, Jobin Higashikata. Josuke, Tsurugi, e Yasuho resolvem obter o drive de informações do carro de Jobin para descobrir onde ele esteve, na esperança de descobrir a localização da árvore da fruta.
Yasuho e Tsurugi logo descobrem uma árvore de Locacaca na posse do associado de Yotsuyu, Aisho Dainenjiyama. Os dois presenciam a natureza de sua troca equivalente quando um homem idoso sem uma perna come a fruta da Locacaca. A fruta cresce uma perna nova no lugar da perna perdida; mas seus olhos viram pedra no processo, o homem chega a conclusão que ele pode simplesmente comprar outra fruta para recuperar sua visão.[3]
A natureza da fruta e suas habilidades milagrosas se tornaram o sujeito do interesse de várias pessoas, incluindo Yoshikage Kira, que a buscou para curar sua mãe Holy de sua doença. É notado que após destruir várias árvores de Locacaca, Kira guardou uma em seu apartamento para seu uso pessoal. A Organização Locacaca de Humanos de Pedra também busca a fruta, já que o grupo Damokan havia um monopólio na troca da fruta até Kira e Josefumi Kujo roubarem um galho deles.
Yasuho mais tarde pesquisa sobre a Locacaca, e descobre que ela se origina da ilha da Nova Guiné, onde ela era conhecida pelos nativos desde a década de 1930. Em certos tempos do ano, homens iriam ir até as montanhas para colher a fruta Locacaca; em vez de uma árvore, as frutas vieram de uma planta perene que teria de uma até três frutas crescendo dela à qualquer dado tempo. Encontrar uma fruta Locacaca era raro, até mesmo para os povos papuásios nativos que viviam ali por cinquenta mil anos. Alegadamente, mulheres sofrendo de infertilidade comiam a fruta e se tornavam grávidas, ao custo do leite em seus seios serem trocados por areia; além disso, pessoas idosos que haviam perdido seus dentes engoliam a fruta e cresciam um par de dentes de pedra no seu lugar. Entretanto, todos os relatos da Locacaca cessaram após a invasão da Nova Guiné pelo Exercito Imperial Japonês em 1942.
Em certo ponto, Holy pesquisa sobre as frutas em um laboratório secreto no Hospital Universitário TG antes que a Organização Locacaca assuma a operação e a incapacite.
In 1941, Lucy Steel makes her second visit to Morioh, spurred by the rumors of a new species of plant being found in the area. After barely escaping a living guard rail, she witnesses Tooru pick up three Locacaca plants and disappear before he can be pursued.
Abilities and Powers
Equivalent Exchange
The fruit of the Locacaca tree follows the same principle of equivalent exchange as the ground of the Higashikata estate: it is capable of granting something to anyone who eats it by taking something else from them. The first example of this concept is seen when an old man uses a Locacaca fruit to regrow his lost leg in exchange for his eyesight.[4] This process can be repeated as long as someone can gain another fruit.
Yasuho's research into the Locacaca fruit reveals that during the equivalent exchange, part of the afflicted's body turns to stone. Infertile women who ate the fruit could give birth, but their breast milk turned into sand; elderly users grew back teeth made of stone in order to eat again.[5] Dr. Wu Tomoki has also performed research on the fruit, and has discovered that 125 grams of the fruit are needed to perform one unique equivalent exchange. Upon being ingested, the fruits is absorbed as it travels from the labial frenum down to the small intestine, invading the body through its bloodstream. Afterward, the Locacaca takes 3 minutes and 21 seconds to heal a specific lesion in the body, prioritizing the gravest injury; to do this, it takes the cells and nutrients from another region of the body, which turns into rock. However, as the chosen region is seemingly random, there is a possibility of the exchange being fatal. In his own operations, Wu uses the Locacaca in combination with his own Stand, Doctor Wu, to prevent the Locacaca from entering vital areas like the brain, thus reducing the risk of death.
Urban Guerrilla mentions that while the process is beneficial for Rock Humans, there is some incompatibility between the plant and regular humans, due to the carbon in a human's body cells and its differences with the qualities of silicon-compound organisms.[6]
Perhaps the most intriguing ability of the fruit is the effect it has on those afflicted with the rock disease; namely the Higashikata family, the Joestar family, and the dog Iwasuke. In the case of the latter, Yotsuyu is able to cure the dog of the rock disease by feeding it a piece of a Locacaca fruit.
New Locacaca
It is eventually revealed that the branch stolen and grafted by Josefumi Kujo resulted in a New Locacaca (新ロカカカ, Shin-Rokakaka), which demonstrates a unique ability compared to typical Locacaca fruits. This species of fruit allows an individual to use another person's body as collateral for the equivalent exchange, and thus avoid the negative consequences of the equivalent exchange. This is shown when Yasuho eats the New Locacaca to exchange with Joshu, whose arm shrinks and becomes shriveled as Yasuho's arm regrows.[7] According to Urban Guerrilla, power over the New Locacaca would give Rock Humans a significant advantage over the rest of society.[8]
The plant appraiser Rai Mamezuku reveals the fruit to be within the Higashikata family orchard, but Ozon Baby's interference renders them unable to obtain the branch. Though Poor Tom appears to deliver the branch to his allies, the latter party soon discovers that both they and Josuke have been tricked by Paper Moon King: Jobin and Tsurugi obtain the real New Locacaca branch, grafting it to a Locacaca tree and hiding it within their own home.
Before the branch can fully ripen, Jobin and his wife Mitsuba are attacked by Wonder of U, and Jobin is killed by the ensuing calamity. With the tree thus unguarded, Joshu Higashikata takes the tree outside and uses one of the fruits to heal an injured Yasuho's arm, realizing too late that his own arm would be sacrificed in the process. Tooru, who had been hiding nearby, soon uses the other fruit to initiate an equivalent exchange after being injured by Josuke's Soft & Wet.[9] However, Tooru is unable to make contact with his target, and is instead forced by Kaato Higashikata to exchange with Tsurugi. Kaato then crushes the branch between her cards to flip the exchange process in Tsurugi's favor, destroying the last of the New Locacaca in the process.[10]
Locacaca 6251
Locacaca 6251 (
The equivalent exchange ability of Locacaca 6251 is noticeably more potent then that of the raw Locacaca fruit: just one dose is able to heal Josuke Higashikata's multitude of injuries, some of which are life-threatening. Locacaca 6251 is engineered to produce greater results with a minimized risk of life-threatening side effects: as such, Josuke only loses small patches of skin around his face, neck, and left eye after using it. However, as stated by developer Satoru Akefu, the drug is still incomplete.
The abnormally fast development of the drug is due to the Locacaca Organization's use of Holy Joestar-Kira, a doctor at TG University Hospital, as a test subject. Soon after taking over the hospital from the inside, the members of the organization began administering Locacaca 6251 to her without her knowledge, causing a rapid deterioration of both her mental and physical health. As the drug was developed further, the group continued to test it on Holy, exchanging her health for the success of the drug. Though the responsible parties are killed in the fight for the New Locacaca, Holy never recovers from her illness.
Locacaca Users
Gallery
A portable, bonsai-tree sized Locacaca plant.
Yasuho holding half of a Locacaca fruit
A Locacaca fruit in Iwasuke's mouth
The New Locacaca branch grafted onto a tree
The New Locacaca branch grafted onto a cactus
The New Locacaca branch nearing harvest
Trivia
- The Locacaca 6251's name is a reference to the JoJo6251 artbook.
- In JJL Chapter 33, Norisuke uses King Nothing to recreate a Locacaca plant from a piece of fruit provided by Iwasuke. The shape of the branch appears to be different from Locacaca plants seen later in the series, but notably resembles the branch Josefumi grafted the stolen Locacaca onto. It is unclear if the differing appearance of this branch is the result of a design change.
References
- ↑ JoJolion Chapter 33: Josuke! Go to the Higashikata Fruit Parlor
- ↑ JoJolion Chapter 82: Doctor Wu and Awaking 3 Leaves, Part 4
- ↑ JoJolion Chapter 39: Doobie Wah, Part 1
- ↑ JoJolion Chapter 39: Doobie Wah, Part 1
- ↑ JoJolion Chapter 47: Hato Brought Her Boyfriend Home, Part 1
- ↑ JoJolion Chapter 69: Urban Guerrilla and Doremifasolati Do, Part 2
- ↑ JoJolion Chapter 101: The Wonder of You, Part 18
- ↑ JoJolion Chapter 64: Mother and Child
- ↑ JoJolion Chapter 107: When All Curses Are Broken
- ↑ JoJolion Chapter 108: Go Beyond, Part 2
- ↑ JoJolion Chapter 92: The Wonder of You, Part 9
